Man found dead in home in Stockton is city's 62nd homicide victim

STOCKTON -- Police are investigating the city's 62nd homicide of the year after a man was found with a gunshot wound to the head in a home on Friday.

The victim has been identified as 20-year-old Jorge Eguiluz.

Eguiluz was found in a home on the 2400 block of Waterloo Road late Friday after a person mysteriously entered a restaurant on Charter Way around 10 p.m., dressed all in black and a hooded sweatshirt, and handed an employee a note requesting someone call police and have them search the residence.

Police have not identified the person with the note, who they say promptly left the restaurant and headed in an unknown direction.

The investigation into Eguiluz's death is ongoing.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office at 209-468-4400. To remain anonymous, you can text the information to investigators with a cell phone to 274637, followed by (CRIMES) TEXT: SJSO, followed by your tip.

This is Stockton's record 62nd homicide reported this year.

Last week, police positively identified Stockton resident Ana Flores-Pineda, 25, the woman whose body was found badly decomposing in a trash can along Dublin Canyon Road in Pleasanton May 24.

Her ex-boyfriend, 30-year-old Javier Prado Sandoval, is facing murder charges in connection with her death.

The record-high number of homicides in Stockton this year surpasses the 58 reported homicides in 2011.

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Reporter Kristin Bender contributed to to this report. Contact Katie Nelson at 925-847-2164 or follow her at Twitter.com/katienelson210.